Naming Your Skills

You have unique skills and talents to offer an employer. Here are some action words that you can use to describe your skills. They can help you improve your skills statements in your résumé or on interviews.

Managing	Communicating	Researching
Plan	Persuade	Clarify
Organize	Direct	Survey
Execute	Lead	Interview
Supervise	Reason	Investigate
Schedule	Sell	Inspect
Assign	Develop	Gather
Direct	Recruit	Synthesize
Coordinate	Create	Examine
Analyze	Negotiate	Diagnose
Prioritize	Arbitrate	Review
Delegate	Arrange	Organize
Hire	Mediate	Evaluate
Fire	Merge	Critique
Recommend	Obtain	Collect
Evaluate	Write	Write
Administer	Interpret	Interpret
Contract	Enlist	Extrapolate
Produce	Motivate	Isolate
Control	Manipulate	Decide
Review	Read	Analyze
Troubleshoot	Speak	Define
Recognize problems	Influence	Develop

Financial	Physical	Helping
Keep books	Setup	Refer
Account	Feed	Render
Audit	Cut	Attend
Appraise	Bind	Care
Research	Drive	Empathize
Analyze	Move	Listen
Record	Lift	Speak
Allocate	Bend	Direct
Administer	Pull	Perceive
Develop	Ship	Understand
Calculate	Operate	Relate
Compute	Tend	Guide

Creating	Teaching	Using Details
Create	Brief	Reconcile
Imagine	Inform	Execute
Design	Encourage	Dispatch
Plan	Communicate	Respond
Conceptualize	Advise	Enforce
Synthesize	Guide	Meet deadlines
Integrate	Coach	Arrange
Abstract	Instruct	Schedule
Generate	Explain	Memorize
Perceive	Enlighten	Collect
Memorize	Stimulate	Compile
Discriminate	Invent	Systemize
Visualize	Adapt	Tabulate
Empathize	Facilitate	Compare
Fashion	Coordinate	Inspect
Shape	Develop	Organize
Write	Enable	Classify
Direct	Clarify	Collate
Imagine	Value	Copy
Paint	Set Goals	Retrieve
Perform	Decide	Process
Act	Initiate	File
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